"Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends."

-- Jacques Delille

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“The problem most nonprofits have is that they are run by romantics who are great to hang out with, but they have no clue.”
“At the beginning of 'The Hills,' I couldn't watch myself because I'm very critical and would pick myself to pieces. But with movies I feel like it's different because you're playing a character. So it's like watching yourself but not watching yourself.”

Source : Interview with Michael Martin, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2009.
“I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.”
“The same thing could have happened on Halloween if somebody in the neighborhood had jumped out and scared him.”
“What is it to be a gentleman? Is it to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise, and, possessing all these qualities, to exercise them in the most graceful outward manner? Ought a gentleman to be a loyal son, a true husband, an honest father? Ought his life to be decent, his bills to be paid, his taste to be high and elegant, his aims in life lofty and noble?”
“There is no more off-leash reliable, calm, sophisticated, go-with-you-anywhere dog than a trained sheepdog.”
“Christian Louboutin, I love you, but honey, please! But when you have this much weight, you've got to give us a little platform. Sorry! The shoes are stunning though. An ounce of pain, it's worth it.”
“For young people today things move so fast there is no problem of adjustment. Before you can adjust to A, B has appeared leading C by the hand, and with D in the distance.”

Source : Louis Kronenberger (1964). “The cart and the horse”

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